{"id":129501,"date":"2022-11-30T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=129501"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:41:15","slug":"from-darkness-to-light-nisgaa-museums-first-annual-fashion-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/from-darkness-to-light-nisgaa-museums-first-annual-fashion-show\/","title":{"rendered":"‘From Darkness to Light’: Nisga’a Museum’s first annual fashion show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nisga\u2019a Museum held its first annual fashion show at the Gitlax\u0331t'aamiks recreation center on Saturday, showcasing a balance of traditional and contemporary Indigenous styles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"From Darkness to Light\" was inspired by 80-year-old Nisga\u2019a designer Lillian Tait and a story her grandfather told her about overcoming hardship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tait has put on her own runway displays in the past, all with the same theme, which is what inspired the museum director and curator Theresa Schobert to revive the idea in the latest show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Three of the designers featured had varying levels of traditional and modern elements in their collections.\u00a0<\/span>Tait focused heavily on traditional designs, displaying a collection of headbands, masks, and capes. All of Tait\u2019s pieces featured artwork created by her husband Alver Tait.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lillian Tait's \"light\" designs for her 'From Darkness to light' collection. Photo by Morgyn Budden.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jamie Davis owns and runs a small jewelry business called \u201cThe Jada Collection.\u201d Her models donned earrings and all black with shawls that featured traditional designs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vanessa Morgan\u2019s collection featured traditional pieces with modern twists. Vests in colours outside of the traditional red and black, and crocheted accessories including earrings, hats, and bottoms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There were originally 27 designers interested in displaying their work on the runway, though many couldn\u2019t participate due to other cultural events and emergencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Sheila Gosnell, special projects coordinator for the museum, and Schobert were happy with the end result and hope that they can feature more artists in more locations in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With several Nisga\u2019a communities in the north, Schobert cited hopes to bring the runway to places like Terrace and Prince Rupert, and hopefully even Vancouver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gifts were handed out to each of the models as a thank you for their bravery in walking the runway for the first time, including Pearl Morrison, who hopes to pursue a career in modelling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Door prizes were also awarded to a few lucky attendees before a cake was cut to round out the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the CFNR story featuring Tait, Schobert and Gosnell below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nisga\u2019a Museum held its first annual fashion show at the Gitlax\u0331t’aamiks recreation center on Saturday, showcasing a balance of traditional and contemporary Indigenous styles.\u00a0 “From Darkness to Light” was inspired by 80-year-old Nisga\u2019a designer Lillian Tait and a story her grandfather told her about overcoming hardship.\u00a0 Tait has put on her own runway displays…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":129510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,16830],"tags":[21262,21264,21263,21259,21258,21261,21260],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129623,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129501\/revisions\/129623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129501"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=129501"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=129501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}